ELA Curriculum Map 2020

How do writers tell a story out
loud (real or imagined)?
How do drawings help tell a
story?
language, speaking and listening)
PK.W.3 Use a combination of
dictating and drawing to tell a story.
PK.SL.2 Recall information for short
periods of time and retell, act out, or
represent information from a text
read aloud, a recording, or a video
(ex: watch a video about birds and
their habitats and make drawings or
constructions of birds and their
nests)
Module 8
Phonological Awareness
What is the alphabet?
How do readers handle books?
How do readers write letters?
How do readers write lowercase
letters?
How do readers write uppercase
letters?
What sounds do letters make?
What are the uppercase and
lowercase letters in my name?
What is a word? -How do readers
count the words in sentences?
What does a word look like in a
book?
How do readers match letters,
sounds and pictures in the
beginning of words?
How do readers identify the
beginning sound of a spoken
words? What other words can
readers think of that start the
same way?
How do readers recognize
familiar signs and labels?
Phonological Awareness
(Standards for Foundational
Skills)
PK.RF.1 With guidance and support,
demonstrate understanding of the
organization and basic features of
printed and written text: books,
words, letters, and the alphabet a.
Handle books respectfully and
appropriately, holding them
right-side-up and turning pages one
at a time from front to back d.
Recognize and name some
uppercase letters of the alphabet
and the lowercase letters in one’s
own name
PK.RF.2 With guidance and support,
demonstrate understanding of
spoken words, syllables, and sounds
(phonemes) b. With guidance and
support, segment words in a simple
sentence by clapping and naming
the number of words in the sentence
c. Identify the initial sound of a
spoken word and, with guidance and
support, generate several other
See the following mini-units:
Bunnies, Eggs, Chicks
Dinosaurs
Spring
Fundations Second Semester:
Formation of Lowercase Letters
Weeks 12-13 (y, x, z, q)
Fundations Second Semester:
Formation of Uppercase Letters
Week 14 (ABCD)
Formal and informal
observations/anecdotal notes to
be kept to inform instruction
Observation
Anecdotal notes
Pictures
Completed by the end of April